Hi all! I'm migrating my mastodon presence to a new server as part of my desire to move to smaller tighter knit online communities. You can find me at [email protected]

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This welta weltur is a great 6x4.5 folder. But after I got it working last summer it still spit little fibers all over my film. The bellows are pretty old and worn and I think the insides are just starting to fall apart.

Tonight I’m trying painting the inside with a dilute mixture of acrylic paint and elmer’s glue to see if I can get the fabric to stabilize.

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noticed infinity was off on my Mamiya Universal this weekend. I was out of town and so focused on the ground glass instead. But today was an opportunity to adjust the focus.

One of the nice things about these cameras is that they are really very simple. Infinity focus adjustment was a 20 minute procedure (including some clean up) and maybe another 20 min to ensure all the lenses were set correctly.

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Been playing with a multiframe panorama idea in moving crowded areas. Here is a part of pike place market. four 4x5 negatives with a 90mm lens (~60 degree field of view) so about 240 degrees in total.

In this case I think the distortion from the 90 isn’t what I wanted. And my 1/2s shutter speed was too slow, I want more definition in the people. And I want a different scene, maybe outdoors.

Need to work on my photoshop

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Instructions on making your own ground glass.

https://anders.conbere.org/blog/making-your-own-ground-glass/

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